Benchmark named Lynn Pollock director of catering and conference services for The Chattanoogan, a Benchmark Resorts & Hotels property.

ConferenceDirect announced that Adriana Molina will join the team as vice president, National Sales. In this position, Molina will play a key role in business development and account acquisition.

The Ames Boston Hotel, Curio Collection by Hilton announced the appointment of Efrén Aponte to the position of director of sales and marketing. Aponte officially joined the Ames Boston Hotel team in early 2017.

Training might be on the cutting block, but that is no reason to throw up your hands in defeat.

Bill Wilson is now the director of DMC Services at Art of the Event, running that division of the company.

Grass Roots Meetings & Events U.S. appointed Howard Givner as its new managing director and head of Americas for the Meetings & Events Division.

Having to change one’s career is always an exercise in stress, but for Jackie Wright, becoming a meeting planner was a study in the power of networking and leveraging the unexpected. Now a meetings coordinator for Washington, D.C.’s American Society of Hematology (ASH), Wright found herself looking for a new employment opportunity after being laid off following a reorganization at the accounting firm where she worked as a relationship manager, liaising between different groups in the company.